Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

How Hatred of Whites Takes Over A Campus

By Professor
Doom

Many
(not most) campuses are hotbeds of racial hatred, hatred of white people and
white culture in particular. It used to be weird demonstrations of hatred of
white people (eg, “Whites Are An Abomination”) were a “once a year” thing…then
every six months.

Today, hardly a week goes by without some
idiocy slouching out from campus regarding the evils of white people.

This isn’t happening at all campuses,
however, not by a long shot. In fact, it’s a minority, or so I suspect…we have
thousands of colleges in this country, and these reports only come from a few
hundred places. What separates these weird places from the normal (ish)
campuses is they are converged, i.e., taken over by Leftist lunatics.

The takeover of campuses by Leftists is
normally a slow process. First they take over the hiring committee or HR
departments, then after that point only Leftists are hired, to the exclusion of
any other political belief. The average of Leftist to
Conservatives among faculty is around 12 to 1, but that’s an average: on a converged campus it may
be 20 to 1, or even higher. That’s just faculty. Thanks to departmental hiring
policies and the tendency of faculty to stay with a school a long time, the
convergence of faculty is hard pressed to become complete in less than a couple
generations.

Amongst administration, convergence is
much easier to achieve quickly—high turnover amongst administration (most
administrators have careers where they rarely spend more than a few years at
any institution), combined with HR control, convergence can be achieved in a
decade or less.

At Evergreen, a small fraction of students was
the face of the protests, some even going so far as to patrol campus with
baseball bats, threatening people, and vandalizing property. But the vast
majority of students were not part of the protests. Some were yelled at,
insulted, assaulted, even battered…they wonder why their experiences are
apparently of no interest to the college administration.

If you’re worried about your school
becoming converged, I encourage you to read this article in detail so you can at least see it coming.
So let’s take a look at the factors leading to the eventual downfall of a
school:

In 2015, Evergreen hired a new president.

The Poo Bah, the grand high ruler of a school, wields incredible power
now. Primarily, they use their power to plunder the school, padding both resume
and checking account before moving on to another school to repeat the process
anew. These guys are paid insane amounts of money (in addition to luxurious
bonuses and perks the Emperor of Rome would envy), but have nothing to do with
education. I doubt that 1 reader in 100 can recall anything the Poo Bah at his
school did for him.

…he hired an old friend to talk one-on-one to
members of our community — faculty, staff, and students. We talked about our
values and our visions for the college. But the benefit of hindsight suggests
that he was looking for something else. He was mapping us, assessing our differences,
our blind spots, and the social tensions that ran beneath the surface.

The Poo Bah has wide latitude when it comes to hiring cronies—I’ve
literally seen dozens of administrators spring up at a school over the course
of a few months, even as the student base and general funding drops. Many Poo
Bahs use their power to award do-nothing patronage positions.

… fired the provost, Michael Zimmerman. The
provost, usually synonymous with the vice president for academics, is the chief
academic officer at an institution of higher education. Zimmerman would have
disapproved of what [Poo Bah] Bridges had in mind and would have had some power
to stop it. But he was replaced by a timid (though well-liked) insider who
became a pawn due to his compromised interim status…

In addition to hiring, the Poo Bah also
has considerable firing power. I reiterate that Leftist takeover of
administration can be extremely fast as a busload of admin leave and new
Leftist admin arrive with the new Poo Bah.

He fattened the administration, creating
expensive vice president positions at an unprecedented rate, while budgets
tightened elsewhere due to drops in student enrollment and disappearing state
dollars.

I’ve seen the above with my own eyes on other campuses…I’m simply citing
the above as reinforcement of my eyewitness testimony.

…forged an alliance with factions known to be
obsessed with race. He draped the “equity” banner around everything he did. Advocating
that Evergreen embrace itself as a “College of Social Justice,” he argued that
faculty autonomy unjustly puts the focus on teachers rather than students, and
that the new VP for Equity and Inclusion would help us serve our underserved
populations…

Again, I’ve seen this before. Anyone reading this and working at a
university needs to see the above, to know the signs of when the convergence
draws near.

…concerns about policy changes were dismissed as
“anti-equity.” What was in the nicely wrapped box turned out to be something
else entirely…

This is the bludgeon that keeps faculty complaints down. Every time
someone spoke up, the label of RACIST came out. Nobody wants that label, and so
dissent is silenced, even as we know what admin is proposing is stupid and
evil.

…he felt he should have let the protesters
dominate and derail the proceedings…

The students eventually pick up how admin is warping the school beyond
its mission of education. They’re told over and over again how they’re entitled
to more. And when the students ask for more, often violently ask for more, the
“leaders” of our schools always do the stupidest thing possible:

They become intimidated by the protesting students, rewarding them for
their un-scholarly behavior.

What happened next was predictable. Protests
became more frequent and intrusive.

Evergreen is now buried in endless protests…if your school gets to this
point, brush up the ol’ resume, because there’s no coming back from here. Admin
doesn’t care that these protests will eventually destroy the school (Hi Mizzou!), as
they’ll reward themselves with golden parachutes on the way out.

After the administrative takeover, comes the faculty takeover:

Meanwhile, the “Equity
Council” that Bridges had appointed and empowered shifted into high gear. It
produced a document laden with proposals that tear at the foundations of a
liberal arts college. It recommended, for example, using “diversity and equity
in the criteria for prioritizing faculty hires.”

Again, having been on hiring committees, I always found it odd that we
consistently gave advantage to “protected minorities.” I kept my mouth shut, of
course, because I didn’t want to be called RACIST. When I finally did speak up
about the wrongness of what we were doing, admin responded with, as usual, the
opposite of integrity: I was removed from hiring committees.

In Nov. 2016, the Equity Council held the “canoe
meeting.”

There are also
indoctrination camps for faculty. The canoe meeting is
available on Youtube, and must be seen to be believed. I’ve seen the
like, of course, but it’s very clear that these
people are insane. The re-education is madness, and here’s where the seeds
of massive white hate are planted, while hypnotic drums pound away.

So, as painful as
the video is, I encourage the strong-willed reader to view it, to understand
how the weak-willed are indoctrinated into white hate.

The audience was told
that there was a binary choice between being allies of the plan or becoming enemies,
and that regardless of anyone’s opinion, “we’re going to do it.”

Again, I’ve mentioned many times how lunatic administrative plans are
slammed down the throats of faculty, and so I’m merely showing above that the
things I wrote of in this blog, years ago, are nothing but the truth.